The Algebraist (SIGNED)
by Banks, Iain M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, signed, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g., slight bumping at base), brown boards, white spine titling bright, text blo
- ISBN 10
- 1841491551
- ISBN 13
- 9781841491554
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Orbit, 2004. 1st. hardback. Near fine, signed, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g., slight bumping at base), brown boards, white spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. Signed on title: To Jim, Iain M Banks. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.
Synopsis
The Algebraist, a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first appeared in print in 2004. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2005. It was his third science fiction novel not to be based or set in The Culture, and the first not to be potentially in the same universe.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131989
- Title
- The Algebraist (SIGNED)
- Author
- Banks, Iain M
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, signed, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g., slight bumping at base), brown boards, white spine titling bright, text blo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1841491551
- ISBN 13
- 9781841491554
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 534
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
- Keywords
- 1st, signed, sci-fi, fiction, Banks
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.84 g
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